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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Jan. 13, 1964
Cancer Threat No Deterrent to Smokers
United Press International
The government report linking smoking to cancer apparently has caused few persons to quit smoking, and many stores report no noticeable decrease in sales, a United Press International survey showed today.
"It's up to the individual whether to quit or not. You can't legislate
against sex or alcohol—or smoking."
IN LOS ANGELES, Lape Gonzalez,
a cashier said, "Hell, no. I'm not
going to give up smoking. I may
die young, but I'll die happy."
But not all persons felt unaffected by the report Saturday showing the "great rapidity" in the increase of several diseases during recent years while cigarette smoking has become more popular.
"This is the end," said Mrs. Alice Hicker, of Wheaton, Ill. "My husband will make me give up cigarettes for sure now."
Teen-ager Walter Tubic, of Pittsburgh, said, "That report scares me I never started (smoking) and I insure I never will now."
SEVERAL GIRLS, who would not permit use of their names, said they hoped their boyfriends would take the report seriously.
"What's worse than the breath of someone who's been smoking?" one asked.
The time was too short since the report was released Saturday to draw firm conclusions. But many smokers indicated they would keep right on smoking because they got
too much pleasure from it or they felt they would be unable to shake the habit. And most storekeepers reported no early drop in sales.
In Milwaukee, Wise., Stanley's Smoke Shop said there has been an increase in the number of pipe and cigar smokers the past few years but cigarette sales have been hitting about usual.
Smoking Habit Can be Broken; Opinion of A Man Who Did It
(Editor's Note>Want to give up smoking? Here is some advice from a newsman who broke the habit 10 months ago.)
Rv Louis Cassels
WASHINGTON—(UPI) — The Surgeon General's Committee on Smoking and Health has perpetrated one of the massive understated statements of our time.
In its report, officially labeling cigarettes a cause of lung cancer and several other deadly diseases, the jury of distinguished medical scientists saves:
"Smokers usually develop some degree of dependence upon the practice."
"Some dependence." indeed!
Speaking with the authority and fervor of one who gave up gaspers 10 months, 2 days, 3 hours and 15 minutes ago, I can state without equivocation that the committee was well within the bounds of truth when it asserted that some smokers are so dependent upon the weed that "significant emotional disturbances can occur if they are deprived of its use."
The committee went on to say that "in medical and scientific terminology," craving for a smoke "should be labeled habituation" rather than true addiction, because it is "a desire but not a compulsion."
But there were five smokers among the 10 famous scientists on the committee. And they obviously were speaking from the heart, and not merely reviewing research data, when they emphasized that:
IN OTHER WORDS, you can kick the habit if you really want to. It's simply a matter of "extinguishing a conditioned reflex."
Federal Report Finds Dangers In Cigarettes
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — Here are findings of the federal report issued Saturday on the effect of smoking on health;
Cigarettes—A cause of lung cancer in men; data for women points in same direction. Also factor in cause of cancer of larnyx and chronic bronchitis. Evidence shows association with cancer of bladder, cancer of esophagus, pulmonary emphysema, coronary artery disease, and peptic ulcer.
Pipes and cigars—Smokers of pipes and less than five cigars a day appear to run far less health risks than cigarette smokers. The difference is reduced if the pipe or cigar smoker inhales, however. Pipe smoking appears to be a cause of cancer of the mouth.
Filters-There is no evidence "to establish that filters have any effect whatever in reducing the health hazards of smoking."
Abstaining - Quitting smoking, even in middle age, improves chances of living. There is no evidence that nicotine substitutes or other medications are any particular help in breaking smoking habit.
Benefits — Smoking undoubtedly has significant beneficial effects on mental health because it satisfies "psychological needs" of smokers. But purported value in reducing appetite and keeping weight down are comparatively inconsequential in medical sense.
"Correctly designating the chronic use of tobacco as habituation rather than addiction carries with it no implication that the habit may be broken easily."
Berton Walkely, a pharmacist in Seattle, Wash., said cigarette sales have remained about the same and sales of cigars and pipes have increased.
ONE WAY TO ACQUIRE this conviction is to sit down and read the committee's 387-page report, which you can order from the Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., for $1.25 a copy.
But don't expect to ease the withdrawal pangs with nicotine substitutes such as lobeline or other commercial products which claim to modify tobacco cravings. The committee said that "carefully
controlled studies have failed to establish the value" of these widely advertised products.
What does help—and I am speaking now from grim, first-hand experience—is to forego during the first week or so the kind of foods and beverages which accentuate your urge to smoke; drink a great deal of fruit juice to flush nicotine residues out of your body; take brisk walks, cold showers or deep-breathing exercises to control attacks of the nervous willy-wams; and keep reminding yourself, as often as necessary, that you will not smoke because you're tired of being enslaved by a habit that jeopardizes your life.
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American people were suddenly going to quit smoking. But he urged the people to give "careful and thoughtful attention" to the report and the "strong evidence linking smoking to cancer and other diseases."
The Illinois State Medical Society planned to alert all physicians and residents in the state in a "continuing and aggressive" drive to discourage youngsters from smoking.
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Gov. Harold E. Hughes of Iowa, who smokes one to two packs a day, said he hoped the Hawkeye state could reduce smoking by 50 per cent. He said he did not care if it cut into state revenue if a human life could be saved.
Hughes said he planned to quit after he loses 20 pounds. He said he was on a diet now and he did not want to try to quit eating and smoking at the same time.
MRS. LEWIS COCHRAN. of Jacksonville, Fla., said the report would not have any effect on her.
"I have several relatives who died of cancer and they never smoked," she said. "I think you can get cancer whether you smoke or not."
Harry McDonnell, police reporter for the Mobile (Ala.) Press Register, said, "I've smoked since I was 14 and I'm 59 now. I'm shocked enough that as soon as I finish this pack, I'm quitting."
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